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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52034	The way of life revealed and the way of death discovered wherein is declared man's happy estate before the fall, his miserable estate in the fall, and the way of restauration out of the fall into the image of God again ... : also the by-pathes, crooked wayes, wiles, snares, and temptations of the enemy of man's soul discover'd ... the utter end and final destruction of all false professions prophesied ... : also a call in the tender bowels of the love of God shed abroad in this day, age, and generation to all the scatterrd sheep upon the barren mountains of profession to return to the true shepherd Christ Jesus ... / Charles Marshall.	Marshall, Charles, 1637-1698.	1674 (1674)	Wing M746; ESTC R26188	27,827	35

Garden and I was afraid because I was Naked and I hid my self And the Lord God said Who told thee that thou wast naked Hast thou eaten of the Tree whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat Who began to excuse himself saying The Woman thou gavest to be with me she gave me to eat and I did eat And the Lord God said to the Woman What is this that thou hast done And the Woman said The Serpent beguiled me and I did eat And the Lord God said unto the Serpent Because thou hast done this cursed art thou above all Cattel and above every Beast of the Field on thy Belly shalt thougo and Dust shalt thou eat c. And I will put Enmity between thee and the Woman and between thy Seed and her Seed it shall bruise thy Head and thou shalt bruise his Heel So the Lord sent him forth from the Garden to till the Ground c. and placed at the East of the Garden of Eden Cherubims and a Flaming Sword which turned every way to keep the Way of the Tree of Life Oh miserable Change Oh deplorable Alteration Oh lamentable State undeclarable undone Condition unexpressible Fall What! he that was in the Image of the Incorruptible Being a Living Soul inhabiting in the Garden of the Lord where the Tree of Life was and the Splendor of the Glory of the Divine Being was known and enjoyed drove from all into the Earth and not only so but the Cherubims and Flaming Sword that turneth every way placed to keep the Way of the Tree of Life Be astonished oh Heavens at this and be horribly afraid oh Earth The Lord God brought up Children and they Rebelled against him Now what was the Cause and Ground O ye Sons and Daughters of Adam that brought this horrible Change that brought man into this deplorable State and Condition Was it not Disobedience to the Righteous Law of God Did not Sin enter into the World through Disobedience and Death by Sin And is not Sin continued in the World through Disobedience Is there any other Way by which Sin enters now then it did then and Death by Sin which has reigned over all and reigns over all who are in the fallen Estate from God even over them that have not sinned according to the Similitude of Adam's Transgression For all have not sinned according to his Similitude who was deceived with an Expectation of an higher Estate then that in which the Lord God had placed him But all Iniquity of what Similitude soever is one in the Ground and becomes a Separator of man from his God So the Ground of all Iniquity and Transgression that ever was is or shall be is man's Disobeying the Righteous Law of God Disobedience whereunto bringeth Death But what was that which in Adam dyed and what was the Death seeing that the Lord said In the Day thou eatest of the Tree before mentioned thou shalt surely Dye and yet though he did eat thereof he lived outwardly and had Children It was the Inward Man that dyed which was so made by the Living Breath of the Almighty for man going out of the Counsel of the Lord by his Disobedience came to be alienated from the Life of God and so became insensible of that primary Life in which he was wholely a right Seed and a noble Plant In his Degeneration he became inwardly dead the inward Senses of the inward Man were lost the inward Ear was stopped the inward Eye was blinded the inward Sence of tasting how good the Lord is the inward Feeling after the Divine Virtue who is all Power Life Love and Joy the inward Sence of Smelling his Garments that smell of Myrrh and of the Spikenard Spiritually were all lost and instead thereof an Ear opened that hearkened to the Voice of the Stranger and an Eye opened that saw the forbidden Fruit pleasant and desirable the Heavenly Cloathing of Innocency Meakness and Resignation lost and thus he came to be without God in the World and here in this Estate Man was altogether out of a Capacity of abiding in the Garden or partaking of the Heavenly Tree of Life that was in the midst thereof and in this Estate are all the unconverted Sons and Daughters of men notwithstanding all Fig-leaf-Coverings of Professions But as the Law of the Spirit of Life breaketh forth in its Manifestation and the Sons and Daughters of men come with it to be awakened they will have the Sight and true Sence of their inward Estate and Condition which will indeed cause a Cry to arise in the Soul Oh wretched Estate Oh miserable Condition And here the Entrance of Sin comes to be seen which hath brought Death for the Wages of Sin is Death which was the Death that came over Adam and over all since that have disobeyed the Righteous Spiritual Law of God which is just holy and good and was before Transgression which Law bringeth to Christ the Promised Seed the Gift of God which is Eternal Life Now man being thus departed out of that Nature Image and Seed in which man had his Being before Transgression is become the degenerate Plant of a strange Vine before the Lord God that made him And from the Sons and Daughters of men as they stand joyned to this Nature and Seed of the Serpent which hath defiled Man in Soul Body and Spirit proceed these Branches and Fruits of Iniquity to wit Pride Envy Emulation Strife Variance Debate Hatred Wrath Anger Murder Inordinate Affection Concupiscence Lasciviousness Wantonness Vanity Uncleanness Fornication Adulteries Love to this World Drunkenness Revelling Idleness Swearing Cursings Cheating Defrauding Double-dealing Evil-speaking Back-biting Covetousness Idolatry Witchcraft Man being thus fallen from God into this miserable deplorable State the infinite Being in his Endless Boundless Fathomless Loving-kindness hath opened a Way by which Mankind might be restored up to himself again which Way is the promised Seed concerning whom he said to the Serpent I will put Enmity between thee and the Woman and between thy Seed and her Seed it shall bruise thy Head and thou shalt bruise his Heel So herein was the tender Mercy of the everlasting God extended unto Mankind in leaving a Seed else all would have been as Sodom and like unto Gomorrah which God destroyed with Fire in his Wrath So this is that one Seed on which he hath laid Help who is mighty to save who is the Image of the Invisible God the First-born of every Creature in which Image Man was before the Transgression who was glorified with the Father before the World began This is He of whom in the Name of the great Jehovah I give Testimony That He is the Way of Life and Salvation and that there is no other Name by which any man can be saved then by him who was and is and is to come who was from Everlasting to Everlasting the Rock of Ages which followed Israel and was in the Church in the Wilderness as Stephen

THE WAY of LIFE REVEALED AND THE VVAY of DEATH DISCOVERED Wherein is declared Man's Happy Estate before the Fall his Miserable Estate in the Fall and the Way of Restauration out of the Fall into the Image of God again in which man was before the Fall Also the By-Pathes Crooked Wayes Wiles Snares and Temptations of the Enemy of man's Soul discover'd who has and doth go about as a Roaring Lyon seeking how he may ensnare and devour those who are in any measure escaping out of his Wayes of Death and Destruction The utter End and final Destruction of all false Professions Prophesied which have had their Rise in the Night of Apostacy through the Loss of the Ancient Eternal Power of the Mighty God by which the Gatherings to the Lord have been through Ages and Generations Also a Call in the tender Bowels of the Love of God shed abroad in this Day Age and Generation to all the scattered Sheep upon the barren Mountains of Profession to return to the true Shepherd Christ Jesus that so into the One Fold they may be gathered Charles Marshall Go through go through the Gates prepare ye the Way of the People cast up cast up the High Way gather out the Stones lift up a Standard for the People Behold the Lord has proclaimed unto the End of the World say ye to the Daughter of Sion Behold thy Salvation cometh behold his Reward is with him and his Work before him Isa 42.10 11. Printed in the Year 1674. To the READER BE serious when thou takest in hand to read this following Treatise and have a single Regard unto the inward Estate of thy Immortal Soul and let thy Spirit bow down to the Measure of the Spirit of God given thee to profit withal that by it the Eye of thy Understanding may be opened so wilt thou see the things herein contained which concern thy own Eternal Welfare and let not thy own Thoughts and Imaginations in the Wisdom from below which is sensual and earthly be Judge herein but stand still out of thy own Comprehendings Ascendings and Descendings and let a true and diligent Regard be had to the Word in thy Heart and Mouth there placed that thou mayst obey it and do it so will thy Heart be truly opened to read with Delight the Things herein opened by the Spirit of Truth which searches all things yea the deep things of God and the Travel in Spirit which is for the opening the Eyes of the Blind and unstopping of the Ears of the Deaf will be answered and the Lord God Almighty will have his Honour from his own Workmanship and thou the Benefit which is the Desire Travil and Breathings of him who is a Traveller for Sion's perfect Deliverance Bristol the 7th of the 2d Moneth in the Year 1673. C. M. THE Way of Life REVEALED AND THE WAY of DEATH DISCOVERED c. IN the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth and after he had made all things on the Earth he made Man in his own Image formed him of the Dust of the Ground and breathed into him the Breath of Life and Man became a Living Soul and the Lord planted a Garden in Eden and there he placed the man whom he had formed and out of the Ground the Lord God made every Tree pleasant to the Sight good for Food to grow the Tree of Life also in the midst of the Garden and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil And he that made man in this Estate gave him a Law to preserve him therein as the Scripture of Truth witnesseth saying And the Lord God commanded the man saying Of every Tree in the Garden thou mayst freely eat but of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil thou mayst not eat for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely dye Now God saw every thing that he had made and behold it was very good the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was good but not for Food And man was indued with that Divine Wisdom that when the Lord God brought of every Beast of the Field and Fowl of the Air to Adam he gave Names unto them and whatsoever Adam called every living Creature that was the Name thereof So here was man's Station in the Image of God a Living Soul a Noble Plant wholely a Right Seed filled with Divine Wisdom and Virtue cloathed with Innocency covered with Glory adorned with celestial Beauty in the continual Enjoyment of the Love and Favour of the Eternal Being of all Beings having his daily Conversation with him that made him no Death no Darkness no Sorrow no Occasion of Tears no Transgression no Knowledge of Evil dwelling in the Innocent Life it self placed in the Garden into which came the River out of Eden that watered it Oh blessed State Oh happy Condition Oh unexpressible Enjoyment undeclarable Beauty and Glory 'T is beyond the Tongue of Man to declare fully that blessed happy Estate of Joy Peace Virtue Purity Holiness Righteousness and Fruition of Life which man was in before he transgressed the Royal Law of God c. Man's Miserable Estate in the Fall BUt now he who kept not his first Habitation neither abode in the Truth envied man's Happiness in the Truth and therefore as a Serpent more subtil then any Beast of the Field which the Lord God had made came to the Woman who out of the Man was made and said Yea hath God said Ye shall not eat of every Tree of the Garden The Woman said We may eat of the Fruits of the Trees of the Garden but of the Fruit of the Tree which is in the midst of the Garden God hath said Ye shall not eat neither shall ye touch of it lest ye dye And the Serpent said to the Woman Ye shall not surely dye for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof then your Eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as Gods knowing Good and Evil And here the Serpent got an Entrance And when the Woman mark saw that the Tree was good for Food and that it was pleasant to the Eyes and a Tree to be desired to make one Wise she took of the Fruit and did eat and gave also to her Husb and with her and he did eat and the Eyes mark of them both were opened Here the God of the World prevailed so as to open an Eye that saw Evil pleasant and to Blind the Eye in these Children of Disobedience that they should no longer behold the Glory of God c. And here they became naked having lost the Robe of Righteousness and Garment of Innocency and then made Aprons of Fig leaves to cover their Nakedness and they heard the Voice of the Lord God walking in the Cool of the Day and Adam and his Wise hid them elves from the Presence of the Lord God and the Lord God called unto Adam saying Where art thou And the Man said I heard thy Voice in the

same came for a Witness to bear Witness of the Light that all through him might believe He was not that Light but was sent to bear Witness of that Light that was the true Light which lightneth every man that comes into the World c. And to this agrees the Testimony of Just Simeon who came by the Spirit into the Temple and took the Child Jesus into his Arms and said Lord now lettest thou thy Servant depart in Peace according to thy Word for my Eyes have seen thy Salvation which thou hast prepared before the Face of all People a Light to lighten the Gentiles and the Glory of thy People Israel This is He of whom we Testifie whose Light is the VVay to Life And this is the Condemnation that Light is come into the World and men love Darkness rather then Light because their Deeds are Evil For every one mark that doth Evil hateth the Light neither cometh to the Light lest his Deeds should be reproved but he that doth Truth cometh to the Light that his Deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God Now this Light which the Servants of the Most High testified of is that which hath been spoken of and denominated under several Names For this Manifestation of God in man is sometimes called the Word the Spirit the Law the Grace of God now the VVord Light Grace Law Spirit are all one in Nature although diversly named Moses called it the Word and directed to this Word in the Heart and in the Mouth which Paul that illuminated Man rehearsing saith Say not in thy Heart mark Who shall ascend into Heaven that is to bring Christ down from above or who shall descend into the Deep that is to bring Christ up again from the Dead But what saith it The Word is nigh thee even in thy Mouth and in thy Heart that is the Word of Faith that we preach This is the sure Word of Prophecy unto which Peter directs to take heed as unto a Light that shineth in a dark place until the Day dawn and the Day-star arise in the Heart c. This Light is the Law of the Spirit of Life where-with Paul was acquainted that warred in his Mind against the Law of Sin and Death which was in his Members This Light is the Law in the Heart and the Spirit in the inward parts the New Covenant of God Almighty This is that which converts the Soul which Law Paul delighted in according to the inward Man This Law is Light of which the Scriptures of Truth plentifully testifie This is that Grace that Paul declared brings Salvation which hath appeared to all men which Law Light Spirit Grace Gift hath in measures as God's Talents appeared unto all men which teacheth all that are lead taught and guided by it to deny all Vngodliness and Worldly Lusts and not only so but also to live Soberly Godly and Righteously in this present Evil World This is that Grace which the Lord the Giver thereof said to Paul was sufficient for him to deliver him from the Temptation the Thorn in the Flesh of which the same Apostle said unto the Ephesians By Grace ye are saved c. And this is the Manifestation of the Spirit spoken of by Paul which is given to every man to profit withal And this is that good Spirit of the Lord given to Israel who rebelled against it as the old World did unto whom the Lord said My Spirit shall not alwayes strive with Man of which ●ord Law Light Grace and Spirit given to be the Leader and Guider of Mankind out of Sin Death and Darkness into which Man fell through disobeying the Righteous Law of God as is afore declared the holy Scriptures give clear and full Testimony as hath been demonstrated But now that which is ready to arise is an Objection in some whose Understandings are not opened whose searchings to comprehend and Inquiries after the Way of man's Salvation stand in that Wisdom that is from below and in the Will and Reason of Man degenerated from the Life of God which is VVhether the preaching up this Word Light Law Spirit and Grace of God manifest within hath not a Tendency to make Christ Jesus his Appearance in the Flesh his Sufferings Death Resurrection and Ascension to be Invalid Unto which I answer Nay Forasmuch as no Persons ever did do or shall truly see discern know understand or enjoy the Benefit of Christ Jesus his Manifestation in the Flesh but as their Hearts were are or shall be opened and Understanding illuminated by the Light which is a Measure of the Divine Fulness that dwelt in him and is communicated to and placed in all Immortal Souls as the Universal Love of God extended in the Son of his Love to all the Families of the Earth as the Revealer and Discoverer of the VVill of him from whose Divine Fulness it comes and issueth forth it self universally for the Scripture thus witnesseth that No man knoweth the things of a man save the spirit of a man which is in him even so the things of God knows no man but the Spirit of God The Hearts of the Jews not being seasoned with this Grace of God and ignorant of the Gift of God which is Eternal Life they neither discerned loved nor received Christ Jesus when manifested in that outward bodily Appearance but rejected him notwithstanding they professed Love Honour and Regard to the Prophets and were in Expectation of the Fulfilling their Prophecies of the Coming of the Messiah who in due time came and yet they did not receive him but instead thereof set themselves against him taking Counsel from time to time how they might slay him though in Words they profest an earnest waiting for him So in this Day Age and Generation there are many who by their words do profess they believe his Coming in the Flesh and his Sufferings Death Resurrection and Ascension but yet having their Faith consisting in outward Notions and having no inward Experience of the End of his Coming nor of the Virtue of his Sufferings Death Resurrection c. they are Enemies in their Minds to his second Appearance and coming without Sin unto Salvation So there is a Necessity for all the Sons and Daughters of men to come to and obey this Divine Spiritual Principle which is placed in their Consciences by the Living Eternal God that thereby the Eye which hath been blinded through Disobedience by the God of the VVorld may be opened for until this in some measure be effected the Mystery of Godliness which is great can neither be seen nor understood and therefore Christ said finding the Woman of Samaria ignorant of himself who was and is that great Mystery and the Gift of the Father's Love If thou knowest the Gift of God and who it is that saith unto thee Give me to drink thou wouldst have asked of him and he would have given thee Living Water The Travail in Spirit of